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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cataclysm | A violent upheaval or change in the Earth's crust, such as a flood |
| Uniformitarianism | The belief that only those forces that are presently acting on earth have shaped the earth in the past |
| Tributary | A river that flows into and feeds another river |
| Drainage Basin | The area drained by a river system |
| Seas | A particularly enclosed area of the ocean |
| Weathering | The degenerative process that contributes to the breaking up and alternation of rock materials |
| Erosion | The natural break down and removal of materials on the Earth's surface |
| Groundwater | Water that has seeped into the Earth's crust and is held below the surface of the Earth |
| Climate | The usual temperature, prediction, and wind conditions of a certain area |
| Front | A line along which two different air masses meet, producing changes in weather |
| Dew Point | The point at which water vapor begins condensation |
| Humidity | The amount of water vapor in the air |
| Lapse Rate | The rate of decrease in temperature with increase in altitude |
| Coriolis effect | The rotation of the earth greatly influences wind the direction in something |
| Temperance zone | The middle latitude with seasonal changes, caused by nearly direct sunlight half of each year |
| Middle latitudes | the temperature region between the tropic of Cancer and the polar region in the northern hemisphere and between the tropic of Capricorn and the polar region in the southern hemisphere |
| Tropics | the latitude zone line between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, with warm temperatures caused by direct sunlight |
| Low latitudes | a zone that lying between the equator and the tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere and between the equator and the tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere |
| Crust | The solid outer portion of the Earth |
| Mantle | The portion of the Earth's interior lying between the crust and the core |
| Plate Techonics | The view that large sections of the Earth crust more about, producing earthquakes and volcanoes |
| Faults | A crack in the Earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions |
| Landform | Every variation in the landscape |
| River System | A main river and all of its tributaries |
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